ES-SSA 2009 Annual Meeting

Welcome!

2009 Eastern Section of SSA Annual Meeting will take place
at Monell Auditorium for Oral presentation and at Lamont Hall
for Poster Session on the Lamont Campus of Columbia University
in Palisades, New York onOctober 4-6, 2009.

2009 ES-SSA Meeting:

2009 ES-SSA Meeting

October 5-6

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Palisades, New York, 10964

Field Trip

Field trip start at 9:00 am in front of Geoscience building at Lamont Campus. You can
drive to Lamont Campus and park your car either at the Geoscience or General parking
lot and go to the Geoscience building (within 2 minutes).

A field trip is being planned for Sunday, October 4, 2009, to see geologic structures associated with earthquakes in the Greater New York City region. We will visit the Ramapo fault, which is associated with a linear zone of seismicity and has been discussed as a possible source of damaging earthquakes. We will also visit a branch of the 125th Street fault that crosses northern Manhattan and offsets the Mesozoic Palisades sill. This fault is a member of a family of NW-striking faults, which are associated with most of the larger earthquakes in the area. We will visit the Hudson Gorge near the Ramapo fault and the nuclear power plant at Indian Point.